This Sunday, July 30, 2017, marks the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley […]
Tag: Fraud
Tesco Bank Deals with Digital Heist
Cybersecurity experts and IT auditors better saddle up — the world just experienced its first […]
White-Collar Crime Watch: An Online Dating Scam, A Fake CPA, and A Tax-Evading Stripper
My grandma got wrapped up in an illegal money-making scheme once. She started taping movies […]
IRS Phone Scam Mastermind Given 175 Months to Think About His Life Choices
If you or someone you know have been thinking about getting into the IRS Crank […]
Madoff Auditor Better at Cooperating Than Auditing, Won’t Serve Time
Auditors facing over 100 years in prison should take note: Madoff auditor David Friehling to […]
“Just Ask the Guy” Not Always a Futile Fraud Detection Method
Boonlomp Soonthornchai handled trustee, executor and accounting services as a partner at Yount, Hyde and […]
Are You One of the 6.5 Million Americans Over Age 112 with an Active Social Security Number?
According to my halfassed research, the oldest person in the world is Jeraleen Talley. She’s […]
Man Who Lived Out Fantasy of Screwing Over a Major Airline Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
Paul Anderson, a former Delta Airlines employee, defrauded Northwest and Delta Airlines out of $36 […]
Let’s Not Rush to Judgment Just Because a Guy Blew Off a Meeting About Accounting Discrepancies 5 Minutes Before It Started
A man who spent his entire 32-year-career in the accounting department of Frisch's Restaurants — […]
Satyam Founder Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Massive, Obvious Fraud
Remember Satyam? That Satyam? Yeah, it's been awhile for us, too. Satyam's PwC India auditors […]
Old Lady Convicted of $190,000 Fraud and Doesn’t Even Have to Miss Christmas
The ACFE says 7 percent of frauds are detected by accident and only 3 percent […]
This Massive SEC Whistleblower Award Will Make You Wish You’d Seen Something and Said Something
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an expected award of more than $30 million […]